Eurosceptic George Simion will get a second shot at becoming Romania's president on May 4, hoping to ride a wave of anger ...

Simion is president of the AUR party and has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2020. At the international level, he is vice-president of the ECR party. He is one of the best known ...

The illegal removal of independent candidate Calin Georgescu from the presidential elections in Romania did not bring victory ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania's presidential election redo next month will be a high-stakes test for the European Union ...

By Iulian Ernst in Bucharest George Simion, leader of the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), remains the ...

Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled the election on Dec. 6 after the far-right outsider Calin Georgescu topped first-round polls. The decision followed allegations of electoral violations ...

Romania’s electoral authorities are looking into the finances of the country’s far-right presidential frontrunner days before ...

Behind them is Elena Lasconi, the leader of the opposition Save Romania Union (USR) party, who finished second behind Georgescu in the first round of the original December vote. This time ...

A cancelled election, a cancelled candidate and a divided country – is Romania’s democracy under ... with the nationalist pro-Putin candidate, Calin Georgescu, riding high in the polls.

Like Georgescu, who won major support from voters outside of Romania, Simion is also angling for the diaspora vote, which isn’t typically included in Romanian polls. The voter base belonging to Dan, a ...